The Israeli Knesset voted on Monday into a bill to slash funds to the Palestinian Authority (PA) by the amount the PA pays out to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and the families of the martyrs who were killed by Israeli occupation forces.
Israeli Channel Two stated that the law passed by 87 to 15 voters.
The bill stipulated that welfare payments paid out by the PA to Palestinian prisoners and their relatives as well as the families of the martyrs must be deducted from tax revenues Israel transfers annually to the PA.
Last week the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee gave its approval for a final plenary vote on the bill in both second and third readings.
Two weeks ago the committee approved the law which was introduced under the law of deduction of financial funds transferred by the Palestinian Authority to the families of detainees and martyrs from the tax allocations that Israel transfers to the PA in accordance with Oslo accords.
